Left.

をのづから絶ぬ情に忘られて積もるつらさを恨みやはする

ononzukara taenu nasake ni wasurarete tsumoru tsurasa o urami ya wa suru

Perhaps Your unending kindness I had forgot, and My mounting coldness Is what I will despise?

Lord Suetsune.

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Right.

今はたゞ思ひ出るぞ哀なる忘れ果つべき中の絶え間を

ima wa tada omoi’izuru zo awarenaru wasurehatsubeki naka no taema o

Now all That I remember Is my sadness; You must have completely forgotten me, So long it’s been since last we met…

Jakuren.

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The Right complain that the Left’s poem ‘doesn’t say anything at all’ [nan to ka wa mōsubeki]. The Left state that the Right’s ‘That I remember is my sadness’ (omoi’izuru zo awarenaru) really is very moving [makoto ni awarege nari].

Shunzei’s judgement: The Left’s ‘unending kindness’ (taenu nasake) and the Right’s ‘I remember’ (omoi’izuru) are formally equivalent [utazama dōtō ni haberubeshi].